Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken two vows — one, that he will never leave the Congress, and the second, that he will never speak when it matters, BJP president Rajnath Singh said here Sunday. Rajnath Singh was speaking at a Bharatiya Janata Party rally on the outskirts of Panaji. Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi […]
The bitter India-US diplomatic row over an Indian diplomat may have been defused for now, but Americans in New Delhi are not likely to get their swimming pool, hamburgers, bowling and booze back anytime soon. For reciprocity is the name of the game since the US chose to arrest, strip search and slap a criminal […]
US President Barack Obama Sunday welcomed an agreement to start implementing an interim deal on Iran’s nuclear programme from Jan 20, but vowed to veto any legislation imposing new sanctions on the Islamic republic hereafter. “Beginning January 20th, Iran will for the first time start eliminating its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium and […]
British government has rejected accusations of “systematic” torture of Iraqis by the British armed forces in Iraq after lawyers and public interest groups made a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC). “The Government has always been clear, and the armed forces have always been clear, that they absolutely reject allegations of systematic abuse […]
An interim agreement about freezing of Iranian nuclear programme will come into force Jan 20, BBC reported Sunday. The deal, which was agreed last November in talks with world powers, envisages easing of some international sanctions on Tehran. In an announcement, the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, representing the five permanent members of the […]
Hitting out at the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling National Conference for treating Ganderbal assembly constituency as Abdullah family’s “fiefdom”, a veteran party leader Sunday said he was quitting and would contest the state polls against the party candidate. Ghulam Ahmad Saloora, who belongs to Ganderbal and has been a prominent leader of the […]
The government is considering increasing the quota of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) cylinders from nine to 12 per household in a year, Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily said Sunday. “I have read in the newspapers about (Congress vice-president) Rahul Gandhi taking up the issue of increasing the LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) cap with the prime […]
To minimise chances of high-tech cheating, the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission has installed mobile jammers in its examination halls in the state capital, an official said here Sunday. The jammers have been purchased after the arrest of 34 candidates, who were caught with mobile phones during the written examination of the combined graduate-level examinations […]
President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday greeted the nation ahead of the festivals of Lohri, Makar Sankranti and Pongal. In his message, he said: “On the joyous occasion of Lohri, Makar Sankranti and Pongal, I convey my greetings and best wishes to all citizens of India and wish them prosperity and happiness.” “May the celebrations reinforce the […]
il India is encouraging domestic and global companies to explore potentially hydrocarbon-rich areas through stable and enabling policies towards achieving its goal of self-sufficiency in hydrocarbons by 2030, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday. He was inaugurating the 11th International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition “Petrotech-2014” at the India Exposition Mart here, organised by […]